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LOCATION
RELIGION
PEOPLE
ACHIEVEMENTS
RULERS
100
MESOPOTAMIA What two rivers are found in Mesopotamia?
TIGRIS & EUPHRATES RIVER
100
EGYPT/MESOPOTAMIA What does Polytheistic mean?
BELIEF OF MORE THAN ONE GOD
100
EGYPT/MESOPOTAMIA Flooding is one of the many natural disasters. What 3 things given by the rivers of Egypt of Mesopotamia made the people consider flooding a gift?
- FOOD SOURCE (fish) - TRAVEL/TRADE - FERTILE SOIL
100
MESOPOTAMIA What Mesopotamian ruler developed one of the first 282 code of laws?
HAMMURABI
100
EGYPT What did Pharaohs [supposedly] control?
NATURE, DAILY LIFE
200
EGYPT what city is between upper and lower Egypt?
MEMPHIS
200
(?) What civilization had a bleak view on death?
MESOPOTAMIA
200
MESOPOTAMIA ''Mesopotamia was ruled under the ________ empire around 1700 B.C.'' (fill in the blank!)
BABYLONIAN
200
EGYPT What plant found by the Nile did the Egyptians use for writing with?
PAPYRUS, THE EGYPTIANS MADE IT INTO A PAPER-LIKE MATERIAL AND WROTE ON IT, USING THEIR PICTORIAL PARLANCE
200
MESOPOTAMIA Which Babylonian King quoted 'Eye for an Eye' ?
KING HAMMURABI
300
MESOPOTAMIA What modern-day country is in place of Mesopotamia?
IRAQ
300
EGYPT What was the Goddess of Mother and Wife?
ISIS
300
(?) What civilization developed a calendar which is almost identical to the one we use today?
EGPYT
300
(?) What civilization invented the plow, wheel, and sail?
MESOPOTAMIA
300
EGYPT Which Pharaoh united Upper and Lower Egypt?
KING MENES
400
EGYPT What sea does the Nile River lead to?
MEDIT SEA
400
EGYPT Name the two most important Gods in Egyptian culture:
RA (Sun God) HORUS (God of Light)
400
EGPYT/MESOPOTAMIA "_______ invented Hieroglyphics, and ________ invented Cuneiform". (fill in the blanks!)
EGYPTIANS - HIEROGLYPHICS MESOPOTAMIANS - CUNEIFORM
400
EGYPT "Egyptians worshipped more than ___ gods and goddesses". (fill in the blank!)
2,000
400
MESOPOTAMIA ''The Mesopotamians believed in more than _____ gods''.
3,000
500
EGYPT/MESOPOTAMIA Egypt was known as the "Gift of the ______" and Mesopotamia was known as "The ________ Crescent" (fill in the blanks!)
GIFT OF THE NILE / FERTILE CRESCENT
500
EGYPT In Afterlife, what did the Gods weigh to decide whether a person has been good or bad in his previous life?
HEART
500
MESOPOTAMIA "The Tigris & Euphrates River flooded Mesopotamia at least once a year. As the flooding water recended, it left a thick bed of mud called _____ ". (fill in the blank!)
SILT
500
EGYPT "_______ is made up of scrolls that contain hymns, prayers, and magic spells intended to guide the soul in the afterlife".
BOOK OF THE DEAD
500
MESOPOTAMIA What does Mesopotamia mean?
[Greek] LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS